Chapter 65
"Occasionally not listening, it feels pretty good."
Sako thought.
A rebellious streak began to emerge from Sako's heart, and her mischievous phase had arrived.
"..."
Itachi gazed at his sister, who was smiling sheepishly at him, unable to read what she was thinking.
He never would have imagined that his sister would defy his instructions and go play with Uzumaki Naruto.
The 'cabbage' he had painstakingly cultivated was being encroached upon by the 'blond' next door... Chapter 7: My own 'cabbage' was snatched, Two-Tomoe Sharingan awakened in anger!
That night.
Yūgao Uzuki reported the day's observations to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Upon learning of Sako's contact with Naruto, Hiruzen Sarutobi quickly issued a new directive.
Uchiha Fugaku was reassigned to the battlefield, a move Hiruzen Sarutobi hoped would avert a potential crisis.
The Uchiha Ninja, unaware of the implications, were overjoyed.
Returning to the battlefield meant that the Uchiha Clan could display their prowess in the current border conflict with Kumogakure, and even earn great merits, thereby completely changing the Uchiha Clan's status in Konoha... Two days later in Konoha.
Uchiha Clan Compound.
Early in the morning, Sako woke up and washed. In the living room, she saw her mother making breakfast.
Today was the Third Exam of the Chunin Exams.
Her brother was still resting, preparing for his appearance today.
"Mom..."
Sako began to circle her mother.
"Dad has gone back to the battlefield."
So the seat that her father, who was supposed to watch the Chunin Exams, would have occupied was now empty.
But the ticket had already been bought, it couldn't be wasted.
"Why don't you give me Dad's ticket..."
Sako naturally also had a ticket.
But the other ticket was intended for Naruto.
Mikoto paused for a moment, her first thought being that her daughter intended to give the admission ticket to Izumi.
But Izumi held Itachi in such high regard, she must have already bought her own ticket.
So... "Are you planning to invite that child, Naruto, to watch together?"
Mikoto immediately thought of her best friend's child.
"Mmm mmm..." Sako started to stammer, and Mikoto immediately understood.
"Take it."
Mikoto handed her husband's ticket to her daughter.
"Thank you, Mom!" Sako carefully took the ticket and ran off, Kick Kick stare.
"I'm not eating breakfast, I'm afraid I'll be late..."
"Get along well with that child..."
Mikoto called out, watching her daughter's retreating back.
That child?
Itachi, who had just woken up, had just rounded the corner of the corridor when he heard his mother's call.
"Mother, where's Sako?"
"She probably went to a friend's house..."
Mikoto, still unaware of the seriousness of the situation, did not know about the agreement between the siblings.
"Itachi, come eat breakfast. For today's assessment, you should eat a lot..."
"No need." Itachi shook his head and quickly walked outside.
Friend?
My sister's friend... I hope I'm not overthinking it.
"Itachi? Itachi?...This child..."
Mikoto looked back at the carefully prepared exam breakfast on the dining table and couldn't help but sigh... Konoha's small park.
Sako stood with her hands in her pockets, constantly looking left and right.
At a certain moment, her eyes lit up.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you're so slow~!"
She had been waiting here for a long time!
"Sorry..."
Naruto scratched his head.
"I got lost today on the way to help an old lady..."
Yūgao in the shadows: "..."
Why does that sentence give me such a strong sense of déjà vu?
Ah, I remember, it's Kakashi-senpai's catchphrase.
Also... Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Fugaku have both been sent back to the battlefield, so the Uchiha Clan shouldn't have any more obviously abnormal movements, right?
"Yūgao, someone else is here."
At the reminder of her childhood friend, Gekkō Hayate, Yūgao saw Itachi rapidly approaching from a distance.
Soon, Itachi hid himself and began to investigate his sister's whereabouts from the side.
"It's Uchiha Fugaku's eldest son, Uchiha Itachi... and also a participant in today's Third Exam."
Uchiha Itachi's name was known to most Konoha Ninja because he had broken the record for clearing the Forest of Death since the village's founding.
Gekkō Hayate: "What is he doing here?"
Yūgao Uzuki: "Perhaps... he might be worried about his sister..."
Naruto, using the excuse of helping an old lady, had been practicing Yin Release at home for the past two days.
Gekkō Hayate and Yūgao Uzuki repeatedly staked out, and it was indeed not a good time for him to expose his Third Tail.
But Gekkō Hayate was not from the Anbu after all, he couldn't guard him forever.
Once he left, he could easily deal with Yūgao Uzuki, and even proceed with further development experiments on her... "Look, I've got the tickets."
Sako threw out two tickets, full of pride.
"Here, this one's for you."
Naruto took the ticket from Sako's hand, and the two happily walked towards the Konoha arena.
They had just left, but did not notice Itachi lurking in the shadows.
"What's wrong with that kid?"
Gekkō Hayate saw a clear change in Itachi.
Itachi's whole body trembled as he clenched his fists, and then his teeth gnashed loudly.
Extreme anger, sadness... and other emotions surged from the bottom of his heart.
Blood rushed to his head, making his ears buzz.
His sister, whom he had raised since childhood, that obedient sister... had defied his wishes and ignored his instructions.
She actually... contacted Uzumaki Naruto again!
His sister's smiling face just now was like a knife plunged into Itachi's heart.
With his emotions reaching an extreme, Itachi's Sharingan activated involuntarily.
An unspeakable sadness and anger then transformed into a fierce torrent.
"Uzumaki... Naruto!"
Finally, as Itachi's murmurs, filled with multiple emotions, coalesced, this immense emotion gathered into a source of power.
In his crimson eyes, black tomoe appeared in his left and right pupils respectively.
His original One-Tomoe Sharingan thus evolved into a Two-Tomoe Sharingan!
"This..."
Yūgao and Gekkō Hayate, who had witnessed the evolution process of the Uchiha Sharinganfirsthand, were even more incredibly shocked by it.
Suddenly.
Uchiha Itachi abruptly looked at them.
As if he had discovered their presence.
Facing those crimson Two-Tomoe Sharingan, for some reason, a feeling of fear arose in their hearts.
That distorted, almost crazed expression was hard to imagine coming from such a young child.
The next second, Itachi turned his head and quickly ran away from the scene... It was a long time after Itachi left before the two of them came to their senses and were liberated from this immense pressure.
"These Uchiha... just a Two-Tomoe, and I already feel like I'm no match for him..."
Gekkō Hayate's forehead broke out in a cold sweat.
Although he didn't want to admit it, there was no doubt that the Uchiha Clan's Ninja were worthy of the title of an elite clan.
The problem was, this was just activated, evolving on the spot... Yūgao, who was equally intimidated beside him, was also sweating profusely: "Hayate, did you see Uchiha Itachi's expression just now?"
It was clear that the expression was initially directed at Naruto.
Uchiha Itachi harbored great hostility and ill will towards Naruto.
However, this was probably not about using the Nine-Tailed or anything, it should just be like "the 'cabbage' I raised was snatched by a 'blond'"... "In any case... let's follow them immediately..."
The place Naruto and Uchiha Sako were going was the Konoha arena, where Hokage-sama would also be present later.
In broad daylight, no matter what Uchiha Itachiwas thinking, he would absolutely not dare to lay a hand on Naruto... At the same time, at Naruto's house.
"Naruto-kun~."